Sofitel Plaza Hanoi presents the exhibition entitled ‘LesEnchanteresses’, featuring 20 works of art by Artist Ngo Duc Hoang. Thecollection of paintings highlights Vietnamese women’s charm. In French, ‘LesEnchanteresses’ means ‘enchanting women with joyful spirit’. Through theportraits, we can easily feel Hoang’s love for Vietnamese folk culture and forthe beauty of women. Hoang paints single and group portraits of the many kindsof people that make up Vietnam’s multi-layered society.

Ngo Duc Hoang is a talented and creative painter who hasorganized many successful group and private exhibitions in Hanoi and Ho ChiMinh City as well as Singapore, Korea and New York City. Hoang brings elementsof the ancient Hang Trong and Dong Ho woodcut painting techniques into his ownpractice - the influence is plain in the way he streamlines compositions,flattens depth, and emphasizes impossibly bright colors. The figures themselves,standing out in color blocks, are full of life in their stunning costumes andenjoying the festive springtime.

Artist Dinh Thi Tham Poong holds an exhibition entitled ‘TheDestination Point of an Oblique Line’ at Vietnam Art Gallery from until 26March. One could say all of life is the intersection of oblique lines oroccurrences. As we go throughout life, our point of view shifts, like the worldon its axis, poised between just one aberrant movement that couldsend all into total chaos.

In this artist’s view, life is orderly. Tham Poong‘schildhood began in nature in close alignment with the seasons and the phases ofthe moon. Life was simple and free to morph and align with the shifts innature. This natural spirit resides in the artist to this day and has alwaysbeen reflected in her art. After graduating from the Vietnam Fine ArtsUniversity in Hanoi in 1993, Tham Poong quickly established herself as one ofVietnam’s leading female artists. Art Vietnam Gallery, tel : ( 04) 3928 5190

A solo exhibition entitled ‘Daily stories’ by female artistLe Kim My, who is considered to belong to ‘the greatest artist generation’ inthe period of Economic Renovation (from 1986) in Vietnam. The artist showcasesher artworks to the public for the first time after 30 years being a lecturerat the Vietnam University of Fine Arts. Her valuable and rare lacquer and silkartworks are inspired by her father, the great artist Le Quoc Loc (1918-1987),who passed the exam to begin study at the lacquer faculty of Indochina FineArts College in 1936. He was then considered one of the leading artists in thefine arts field with famous lacquer works. Entrance free.

A chic 3D painting exhibition called ‘World, Magic &Fun’ is on display at Hanoi Creative city for visitors to admire and to‘selfie’ as well. Following four successful editions in Belgium (one inBrussels and 3 at the Belgian coast during summertime), ‘3D World Magic &Fun’ starts its first edition in Hanoi. The unique exhibition features hugepainted backdrops and visitors can complete the scene by carrying out some act.

The backdrops include‘The Minions’, ‘The Simpson Family’ and the ‘Ocean World’. Tickets VND50,000/person from 4 years old. Part of the benefit from tickets will go to a charityproject.

A special concert features five disciplines of Vietnamesetraditional music of Tuong, Cheo and Ca tru, Chau Van and Hat xam (or so-calledoperettas originating from the rural northern part of the country) will beperformed at L’Espace Convention Hall in Hanoi’s Old Quarter area. Thesetraditional folk arts, which combine trance singing and dancing, are areligious form of art used for extolling the merits of beneficent deities ordeified national heroes. Tickets:VND170,000/ adult, VND100,000/ L’Espace member & VND80,000/ student.

Jazz singer Noga was born in Switzerland from an Israelifamily with roots in the Ukraine and Germany. She chose to study classical andjazz vocals before exploring body-mind tools and adopting various practices,such as circle-singing and improvisation. As singer-songwriter and composerever since, the artist has headed many music projects in French, Hebrew,English, and even an invented language. Tickets: VND170,000/ adult, VND100,000/L’Espace member & VND80,000/ student.

The concert ‘A Night of Russian Music’ will be preformed byHBSO Symphony Orchestra, together with the participation of conductor DavidGomez Ramirez and violinist Anna Sowanna-Takeda. Part 1 of the concert willpresent Overture “Dawn over the Moscow River”, from the opera Khovanshchina byModest Mussorgsky and ‘Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 35’ by Piotr Tchaikovskywhile Part 2 will feature ‘Symphony No. 1 in G Minor’ by Vasily Kalinnikov.Tickets are from VND200,000 to VND550,000 and VND80,000 for students. Fordelivery, contact (08) 38237419, online booking: www.ticketbox.vn

The opening ceremony of Ao dai Festival 2016 will take placeat 6.30 p.m. on 8 March with an ao dai performance. The festival is scheduledwith multiple activities in different locations in the city such as photoexhibitions entitled ‘Ao Dai through the Ages’, held at the Vietnam NationalMuseum of Fine Arts, Ao Dai Museum, War Remnants Museum, and Chi Lang Park onDong Khoi Street from 5 to 31 March. The organizer will also hold talk showsand presentations focusing on the history and cultural value of ‘ao dai’.There will be an ‘ao dai’ contest withparticipants from different backgrounds, including Vietnamese schoolgirls,housewives, company employees and female staff from embassies and foreignbusiness associations based in Ho Chi Minh City as well as an ‘ao dai’ drawingcontest for elementary and secondary school students and an ‘ao dai’ designingcontest for university students.

Philip RANG is a member of the Australian Cinematographer’sSociety, based in Paris and working globally and who uses exclusively Polaroids-Tirage d’Auteur - to photograph. For the past seventeen years, Philip hasspecialised in the of lighting Australian, French, Indian, Chinese and S-EAsian TVCs and music videos feature ﬁlms in some of the most extreme anddemanding mental and physical conditions.

Philip has resisted the digital age in his photography andcontinues to immortalise his subjects with portraits of people, landscapes,life styles, and slices of life with a 1961 Vintage Polaroid Land Camera withan original German Rodenstock lens. It’s this perseverance in keeping alivethis 50-year-old technique which is the force and beauty of the images we seetoday.

In the first Ladies Professional Golf tournament sanctionedby the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) and The Dalat at1200 Country Club & Private Estate, one hundred and twenty professionalfemale golfers from Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China andVietnam, will compete for the $ 420,000 prize money.

Televised live across five countries, for five hours a dayand delay telecast in eight other countries, the Ladies Championship willincrease awareness and interest across the region for Dalat and Vietnam. At thesame time, The Dalat at 1200 Country Club and Private Estate will showcase itsworld-class villas, resort residences, recreation facilities and stunningsurroundings.